Alex Burey is a name to remember.
An artist of stunning depths, the songwriter's work – supple, gently poetic – seems to wash over you in gradual tides of inspiration.
Easy to imbibe but difficult to pick apart, Alex Burey is set to release debut EP 'Family Stone' later this year. Film maker Hollie Fernanado has stepped in to craft the visuals.
Editing together old home movies, the blissful nostalgia and slightly damaged quality of the film itself is the perfect counterpoint for Alex Burey's often poignant songwriting.
Hollie explains:
"Alex told me that some things are hard to say with just words, as there aren't words strong enough to describe certain feelings such as the love you have for your family. He wrote Family Stone to show his family that love and explain the way it grows and evolves as you grow older yourself and start to appreciate everything differently. There's a hauntingly beautiful sadness to the song, which I guess reflects Alex's contrasting feelings of love bus also the grief about growing older, letting go of your childhood and appreciating each member of your family as an individual rather than the attachment you made as a child."
"The family in the video are called the Ketcham's who were based in New York State and all the footage was filmed by Dr Rodney K. Ketcham (1909-2002). Dr. Ketcham was a professor of Foreign Languages and his expertise in many languages and love for nature, culture, and foreign climes led to his being a lifetime world traveler and photographer, documenting his family wherever they went. When I found the footage I watched hours upon hours of it. I was so engrossed in the things Dr. Ketcham decided to focus his lens on and a lot of it reminded me of my own work weirdly enough. I felt the similar feelings of love and grief after finding and watching all the movies; I felt like I knew the family but had to face the fact that I was watching archived footage of ghosts from the past."
"When Alex asked me to create a video for Family Stone, these movies fitted the whole emotion of it so well. I wanted to create a video full of things that made people really nostalgic about their childhood and trigger appreciation for those fleetingly fast but special moments in life, and I believe Dr. Ketcham had a great eye for seeing these things."
Effortlessly moving, you can check it out below.
